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Science • Jun 18

Scientists Spent 13 Years Bouncing Radar Off Europa. Here’s What They Found

It's a good time to be a Europa fan—scientists keep announcing new insights into the distant, icy world. And this time, the results come from more than a...

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Science • Jun 18

Scientists trace high-energy ghost particle to the 'Shadow Blaster' galaxy

Astronomers have traced a high-energy "ghost particle" back to Shadow Blaster, a star-forming galaxy located 11 billion light-years away, meaning this...

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Science • Jun 18

NASA’s ERNEST Rover Just Completed a 16-Mile Desert Run to Unlock Steeper Routes on the Moon and Mars

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a new four-wheel prototype, called ERNEST, into California's Colorado Desert near Plaster...

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Science • Jun 18

Denisovan DNA influences the immune systems of modern Oceanians — but researchers aren't sure why

Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.

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Science • Jun 18

James Webb Space Telescope finds a salty surprise on famous 'Pink Planet'

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the well-known "Pink Planet" harbors a salty surprise and an exotic atmospheric...

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Science • Jun 18

Rotating Spiral Brain Waves Act as a Space-and-Time Clock

Summary: Researchers identified a new class of traveling brain waves that rotate over space and time. The study reveals that these vortex-like waves are...

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Science • Jun 18

Tension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take Shelter

For many years, both NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos have struggled to contain persistent leaks plaguing the International Space Station.

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Science • Jun 18

Tension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take Shelter

For many years, both NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos have struggled to contain persistent leaks plaguing the International Space Station.

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Science • Jun 18

344 steps stood between the James Webb Space Telescope and total failure — any one could have ended it — and the telescope that survived them all now runs on less power than a household kettle, a million miles from Earth

When the James Webb Space Telescope launched on 25 December 2021, it carried a list of 344 single points of failure. Each one was a step or a part where a...

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Science • Jun 18

Mammal Tissue Regeneration Activated: FGF2 and BMP2 Override Scarring in Mice

Mammal tissue regeneration may be suppressed rather than lost: Texas A&M researchers triggered bone, joint, and connective tissue regrowth in mice using a...

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Science • Jun 18

NASA Testing Advanced Capabilities for Moon, Mars Rovers

A prototype rover built with a new design for tackling rugged terrain is helping teams refine capabilities that could one day be used on future lunar and...

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Science • Jun 18

Mars life search gets boost as rover test distinguishes mirrored biosignature molecules

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our neighboring planet was likely warm,...

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Science • Jun 18

A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled 'Baby Lamprey,' Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land

Richard Rock—a Vietnam War veteran, a Master Gardener and an avid fossil collector—has been picking up rocks for 66 years. His favored site is Mazon Creek,...

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Science • Jun 18

An earthquake hit Japan so hard it made the entire country move

This “extraordinary” event was likely caused by seismic waves bouncing off Earth's core, researchers found.

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Science • Jun 18

How New Fossil Discoveries Just Rewrote the History of Land Life

We've all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, transforms into something resembling...

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Science • Jun 18

Japan’s 2011 earthquake was so powerful that it shifted the entire country’s location

Japan's catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas by as much as five or six...

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Science • Jun 18

Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval stage with external gills like...

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Science • Jun 18

A Giant Seismic Wave Bounced Off Earth's Core And May Have Shifted Japan

When the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake struck off the coast of Japan in 2011, its seismic shivers did more than ripple through the planet.

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Science • Jun 18

Massive Tohoku Earthquake Sent a Seismic Wave That Shifted All of Japan

Researchers discovered an unusual, nationwide shift when examining GPS records of the Tohoku earthquake.

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Science • Jun 18

NASA Flyby Reveals Violent Origin of Weird Peanut-Shaped Asteroid

On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body and cratered surface.

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